The apron strings that tie local governments tightly to the centre were to be loosened.
In recent weeks, their activities have become infrequent and their grip on most of their erstwhile strongholds has loosened.
Sarbanes-Oxley's heavily criticised section 404, on companies' internal controls, is already being loosened.
Infrastructure investment should rise further in the coming months as project approvals have picked up and access to credit has loosened.
But believe it or not, in the last few years the leash on comedians performing in the Middle East has loosened.
The city, and others in Asia, have seen property prices rise partly because of money flowing in from countries where monetary policy is being loosened.
Outside investors have benefited as the grip of insiders has loosened.
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But unless the system makes some effort to distinguish between the two, it is hard to see how the grip of the moral-hazard dilemma can ever be loosened.
You would think that after years of eating smaller portions with an tightened Lap-Band, people would have developed new eating habits they could sustain when the band is loosened.
The result is that demand for pesos is rising, so much so that restrictions on frozen current accounts were lifted in December and those on time deposits were loosened.
They also fear that provisions ensuring the secrecy of information uncovered in grand jury proceedings -- meant to protect innocent individuals from the release of embarrassing information -- would be loosened.
While the original idea of conscription was to build a military that reflected wider society, German leaders now feel that democracy is so embedded that constraints on its role can be loosened.
The scaffolding, rubble, and general detritus which surrounded it during those years were mirrored in Labour's election results in Wales, which led many to speculate that their grip on power in Wales was finally being loosened.
Checks against excess paper-money creation were loosened.
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There are those who would like to see the inflation target raised or loosened somewhat.
No other drink on the planet simultaneously makes a connection to welcome, festivity, extravagance, tradition and loosened inhibition.
Work is slow along the 525-foot-wide route to Umm Qasr's grain elevator, where the Dredge Carolina chews up the mud with its 3, 000 horsepower cutter and suctions out the loosened silt.
That would be the first major foreign stake in a Singapore bank since ownership limits were loosened in May.
To stave off recession, the Federal Reserve loosened monetary policy.
For a moment then her eyes were clear, her contorted features loosened and were calm.
Fed watchers had to infer whether the central bankers had loosened or tightened policy.
Other developers noted that their policies toward dogs had loosened over the years.
As he understood it, the carburetor had loosened on its fixing.
In Beijing, central bank officials loosened bank lending requirements.
The political connections that earned Goldman the sobriquet Government Sachs have been loosened by the crisis. (Jon Corzine, pictured right above, who was appointed Goldman's CEO in 1994, was for a while governor of New Jersey and his successor, Henry Paulson, left, went on to become President George Bush's treasury secretary.) A press that once put Goldman on a pedestal prefers today to put the boot in.
Because the U.S. Congress only recently loosened laws restricting funds for research involving embryos, scientists have focused their efforts on other sources.
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